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    Hillside Games, Asheville: The Unfriendly Local Game Store

    Have your friend put up banners: "Coming Soon: Sidehill Games - Best Selection of Board Games in Town!" and see what the other folks do. ;) To a gamer, Wyvern's Tale sounds like a tavern. How many non-gamers know what a wyvern is, anyway? Draw folks in with a common reference or a board game...
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    One of these days... Mind you, I am no pillar of normalcy. I wear my weirdness like a badge of honor whether I am amongst family, friends, co-workers, or strangers. If I want to mingle with sheep, I have three in my back pasture ;)
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    Why did you stay with an earlier edition?

    I selected "I stayed with an older edition because I felt the new rules weren't as good as the old" because it was the closest option for "I was in the middle of a campaign that I did not want to end. The new ruleset was incompatible with my game and/or did not offer a compelling Conversion Manual"
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    Depends...
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    makerbot

    And now the Smithsonian wants to make the objects in its collection 3D printable! LINK
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    For over four years I have been running my current chat-based game. I have often wondered if all of my players are, in fact, the same 53-year old man living in his mother's basement. ;)
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    The Darker Side of Fey

    Beat me to it... Don't mess with Tink.
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    Lair of the Slimelord .....

    Very nice! Have you considered using those ice cubes with LEDs? Or perhaps using ice cubes made from tonic water, which glows under black light.
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    You know, I was one of only a handful of students at my college that spent the entire day of Halloween in costume (SCA garb). I even took a Jack o'Lantern with me from class to class. Mind you, I was spoiled. My first SCA event was Pennsic War, slugging down schnapps with Doglord Tantor. ;)
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    How was the civil war not about slavery?

    Like the default answer to "The South's gonna do it again!" is "Do what? Lose?" ;)
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    On Sunday nights, I run my D&D game in an IRC channel (chat room). On Wednesday nights, I gather in a chat room with my childhood friends. We drink, quote python, reminisce, and discuss new events. The whole reason I started gaming online was to game again with two of my friends. Alas, work...
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    Granted, people change. Before I got married, I kept reptiles and collected comics. I gave those up when I got married. I guess I had lost interest. But then I discovered saltwater aquariums and decided to give online gaming a try (married in 93, first kid born in 94, started gaming online in...
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    The whole issue of hiding aspects of one's life is nearly foreign, to me. Everyone who knows me knows I am a geeky goofball who values sense of humor and sense of wonder above any label society might place on me. Mind you, my religious views would most likely get me burned at the stake, here in...
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    A brand new EN World in development

    EN World on Second Life! woot!! okay, okay... EN World - Now In 3-D!! fine... EN World, re-imagined as a text-based adventure! I guess I'll wait. ;)
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    Looking for Ideas to Creep Out My Players

    Lovecraft? Asylum? Away in a madhouse - YouTube - a cabinet filled with bottled tears, each carefully labeled - a wall upon which tattooed mummified limbs have been pinned - a collection of empty birdcages, each made of a different metal - a large broken mirror, recently reassembled save for...
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    Your Very Own 3D Printer!!!

    There was more discussion of 3D printers in this thread , as well.
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    What a strange turn this thread has taken. By contrast, if I told my wife I was going to a poker game or to watch football at someone's house, she would call a doctor or perhaps SETI. I do not have a circle of friends that I hang out with, nor do I have the slightest interest in sports. She...
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    Ashamed of being a Gamer?

    So, no rolling for Cure Serious Wounds in the middle of surgery, then? Gotcha.
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Races for the 5E PHB

    I'll opt for the Man-Ape Genius. He is a master of Flung Poo.
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